Mark Webber meets good old British weather during free practice. He would qualify on pole, for the 8th time in his career.

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Fernando Alonso gets ready to race the new and improved Ferrari.

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Making his debut in Formula One was Daniel Ricciardo from Australia. A Red Bull protégé, he was purchased a seat in one of the Hispanias to learn how to dodge blue flags during an actual race. He has a very impressive nose.

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Sebastian Vettel should be a terrible person for all his seemingly effortless victories, but it’s little touches like this that make him so endearing: his helmet bears the name of everyone on the Red Bull team.

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Although McLaren were hit hard by the ban on exhaust-blown diffusers, team principal Martin Whitmarsh and Jenson Button share a laugh before the race.

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It was not a McLaren race: Button’s pit crew made a mistake, and he ended the race parked in the pitlane, on three wheels.